Our nation’s former past time, baseball, is having a rough time of it now that the steroids reports are coming out. I say former past time because football, the real American pastime, surpassed it in popularity looong ago. I mean who really watches the world series anymore. Just this summer at a history conference, I was asking several sports enthusiasts who won the world series two years ago. No one remembered! Name me the last four Super Bowl winners? There’s your answer.
Plus, it is just hard to get into a sport where they play so many damn games. At least with football, you only have 16 games. Losing one or two games can ruin your whole season. Not so in baseball. Maybe at the end of the season when the pennant races are in full swing, but then let’s start baseball after the all-star break.
It’s not that I’m anti-baseball. I loved playing it. If I could go back and do one thing athletically (I can hear my wife snicker now. Everytime I attempt to do something semi-athletic, she snickers, “Two time all conference” (in football) right before I trip and fall on my face. We have a good chuckle over it. Really she is the athlete - playing three or four every year) it would be to take infield. I loved that.
But as a national sport? It’s overrated.
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